As the UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) gets underway, Intel is claiming a leadership role in the development of new drone regulations. Intel is a partner in four of the ten sites chosen... Read more
In a conversation with Fortune’s Alan Murray at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao says that drone integration is a top priority f... Read more
News and Commentary. In a widely publicized FAA-funded report titled Assessing the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and... Read more
“UTM” is one of those acronyms that has reached the status of annoying – technical enough that not everyone in the drone industry understands what it means, but ubiquitous enough that few ar... Read more
News and Commentary. It’s that time of year again: when visions of millions of drones wrapped in holiday paper prompt the U.S. government to discuss drone registration. Last week, Bl... Read more
The Commercial Drone Alliance, a leading industry advocacy group, has published a response to today’s announcement of a UAS Integration Pilot Program. Saying that the program was... Read more
Military and commercial drone company Insitu announced that their platforms have flown 1,000,000 hours last week – a major milestone for the 23-year-old company. “…I believ... Read more
FAA‘s chief administrator Michael Huerta addressed the drone industry at the second annual UAS Symposium this week. The event was co-hosted by the FAA and industry advocacy group AUVS... Read more
The new small UAS Rule (Part 107) takes effect on August 29th. The FAA has published a variety of documents to assist businesses seeking to be in compliance with the new regulation. Of espec... Read more
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) calls itself the world’s largest nonprofit organization devoted exclusively to advancing the unmanned systems and rob... Read more
John Chambers, former CEO of CISCO, addressed the Xponential conference today – warning companies that as the drone industry reaches the inflection point before exponential growth, the... Read more
NASA has announced that it’s first and largest test of their air traffic management system for drones was successful. NASA and drone operators at FAA test sites across the country fle... Read more
The FAA held a UAS Symposium with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University last week in an effort to bring stakeholders together on drone integration. The Symposium was one of the FAA’s re... Read more
It’s no secret that the FAA has been working with CACI International on drone detection technology around airports. But the FAA contract with CACI is apparently very secret indeed. Th... Read more
